AI Reading for Sunday July 14

How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Became Tech’s Steely Eyed A.I. Gambler - NY Times

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Whistleblowers say OpenAI illegally barred staffers from whistleblowing. - Washington Post

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AI and killer robots figure in new 'Gray Man' novel. Times Free Press

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AI and tech are reshaping warfare. - Axios

If a certain shooter had a proper self-directed facial recognition AI robot gun or an autonomous killer drone he wouldn't have missed.

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AI trash sorting. I honestly need an AI app to figure out what to do with different types of trash. I fail at the Turing Test of, is this Whole Foods carton compost, too dirty for paper bin? - 13newsnow.com

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A beginners' guide to quantization. The Register

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AskMen survey says everyone is sexting with AI but finding a real person to sext with is proposed as better for both one's sex life and the environment. - AskMen

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Wimbledon line judges might be replaced by AI, Djokovic says it's time. - Mail Online

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28 AI startups that raised over $100m this year. - TechCrunch

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Loverse AI dating experience app gains popularity in Japan. - Interesting Engineering

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Surveys say people hate AI customer service. - Futurism

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"In a world where AI has replaced voice-over artists like 'voice of God' Don LaFontaine ..." - Lookout Santa Cruz

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Amazon's Rufus chatbot is here for Prime Day, reviews say it's OK. - Tom's Guide

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AI can boost individual writers' creativity while reducing overall novelty and making all writers sound more similar. - the Guardian

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It feels like LLMs are the fast 'system 1' in Kahneman's 'Thinking Fast and Slow' and the planning and reasoning is the slow 'system 2', and there is this natural dichotomy between the 2, between poets and quants. - VentureBeat

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Using LMSYS type Chatbot Arena battles to train and improve chatbots. - Microsoft

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Open source AI Hilbert combines data and theory to formulate testable hypotheses and advance science - ai-hilbert.github.io - Nature

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Looks like maybe OpenAI is doing a small model or something. - X (formerly Twitter)

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Animals eating noodles - X (formerly Twitter)

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